Soroprevalência de brucelose em bovinos abatidos no Matadouro Público de Santa Cruz, Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil.

Abstract

The brucellosis is a disease infect - contagious provoked by bacteria of the gender Brucella. Being a zoonose of universal distribution, it carts important sanitary problems and bulky economical damages, the main manifestation forms in the animals, are evidenced by the abortament, sterility and low productivity, what corroborates for an accentuated fall in the potential productive animal. Them drastic consequence caused by that agent infectante, it justifies the concern in doing a study of prevalence of B. abortus in the municipal district of Santa Cruz - RN. For so much they were picked 297 samples of serum of males and females abated at the public slaughterhouse of the city, as I diagnose, the test of the AAT, as selection proof, being verified that none of them reacted positively.